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enMozilla: You Can Blame Apple for No Firefox Browser on iOShttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/mozilla_you_can_blame_apple_no_firefox_browser_ios
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u220903/firefox_icon_200px.png" alt="Firefox" width="200" height="150" class="graphic-right" />While Firefox has spread its wings recently from the desktop to Android and even its own mobile OS, Mozilla has no plans to introduce an iOS version, and it's apparently all Apple's fault.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-14013_3-57573440/mozilla-says-no-plans-to-return-to-ios/" target="_blank">CNET is reporting</a> that Mozilla has no plans to bring its popular Firefox web browser to iOS, particularly when Apple has made it impossible for them to do it properly by porting over the rendering and Javascript engines that make the app what it is on the desktop.<br /><br />While speaking at a SXSW 2013 panel over the weekend, Mozilla Vice President of Product Jay Sullivan announced that the non-profit company has no plans to return to iOS after yanking its only Mozilla Firefox Home offering from the App Store last fall.<br /><br />Mozilla has been in overdrive lately cranking out desktop versions of Firefox for Mac, Windows and Linux as well as its Android app and now Firefox OS, a mobile operating system the company hopes to build around its well-loved browser.<br /><br />According to NetMarketShare, Mozilla currently holds less than one percent of the mobile browser market, with Apple's Safari taking up more than 55 percent by comparison. Unfortunately, Apple does not allow third-party developers to bring their "secret sauce" to iOS web browsers, which must be build from the same WebKit used to create Mobile Safari.<br /><br /><em>Follow this article’s author, <a href="http://twitter.com/JRBTempe" target="_blank">J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter</a></em></p><p>&nbsp;</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/mozilla_you_can_blame_apple_no_firefox_browser_ios#commentsNewsandroidApp StoreApple Inc.FirefoxFirefox HomeFirefox OSjavascriptMobile SafariMozillaweb browsersWebKitiPadiPhoneiPodMacMon, 11 Mar 2013 13:15:23 +0000J.R. Bookwalter16438 at http://www.maclife.comWhy You Shouldn't Be Scared of the Flashback Trojanhttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/why_you_shouldnt_be_scared_flashback_trojan
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u53/2012/04/trojanhorse.jpg" width="620" height="340" /></p><p>News of the Flashback trojan flooded the pipes earlier this month with headlines about how Macs are “no longer safe,” and generally scaring the bejeezus out of Mac users everywhere.&nbsp; That perfect illusion of Apple, which has always been exalted by users for creating products practically immune to viruses, was suddenly shattered.&nbsp; And rightfully so, as the virus had affected 600,000 people, roughly 1% of Mac users.<br /><br />Even more frightening was the breakout of a newer trojan the other day.&nbsp; Sabpab, also referred to as SabPub, is a still-active virus that is spread through Java vulnerability (much like Flashback) and Word documents -- an old school method of attack that most users don’t see coming.<br /><br />So why all the new viruses?&nbsp; Haven’t Macs always been considered the safer alternative to PCs?&nbsp; At least that’s what we’ve been programmed to believe since the days of the “I’m a Mac” advertisements.&nbsp; Yet for the first time on a wide-scale level, Apple’s security is being questioned.<br /><br />But before you get all riled up, consider a few things.&nbsp; Technically, Mac products are no safer than PCs; up until recently, Macs have been more protected by attacks simply due to the fact that PCs had more users and therefore hackers could gain more from attacking a larger population.&nbsp; However, as the population of Mac users has slowly grown, attacks have likewise begun to increase.&nbsp; The bit that makes this all okay: within weeks of a virus taking hold, Apple releases updates to eradicate all traces of the trojan.<br /><br />It didn’t take long for Apple to <a href="http://www.maclife.com/article/news/kaspersky_warning_flashfake_bug_apple_java_update_squashes_trojan" target="_blank">strike down</a> Flashback, the largest virus to ever affect Mac users.&nbsp; The same held true with last year’s MACDefender and will hold true again with Sabpab.&nbsp; It’s also important to note that while Mac users tout the invulnerability of Apple, Apple itself <a href="http://www.switched.com/2009/09/01/apple-quietly-admits-macs-get-viruses/" target="_blank">acknowledges its flaws</a> in order to help consumers prepare and defend themselves.&nbsp; Not only does Apple have a support community ready to help users individually fix MacBook ailments, but they also offer features that help protect against an infection—it is simply that more often than not, users don't switch it on. In the end, Apple is so reliable that this is why the bad guys don’t bother too often with mass attempts at trojan'ing Apple.<br /><br />So what should we expect?&nbsp; Certainly trojans will come and go, running rampant through OSX software, but Apple also won’t fail to deliver lightning fast solutions on its end.</p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/why_you_shouldnt_be_scared_flashback_trojan#commentsNewsBlogsflashback trojanjavascriptmacdefenderOS XTrojan horsevirusesMacWed, 18 Apr 2012 20:25:40 +0000Brittany Fleit13862 at http://www.maclife.comAndroid's Froyo Beats Apple's iOS 4 in JavaScript Performance Testshttp://www.maclife.com/article/news/androids_froyo_beats_apples_ios_4_javascript_performance_tests
<!--paging_filter--><p><img src="/files/u53/javascripttest.jpg" width="380" height="257" /><br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/android-22-demolishes-ios4-in-javascript-benchmarks.ars" target="_blank">ArsTechnica posted an interesting bit of news this morning</a>. The site pitted Google's Android 2.2 mobile operating system against Apple's iPhone iOS 4 and tested the JavaScript performance of the native browsers. The results were fascinating. <br /><br />The popular tech site ran two JavaScript benchmarks tests using the native browser on Google's Nexus One and Apple's mobile Safari browser on an iPhone 4. The first test was with <a href="http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html" target="_blank">SunSpider</a>, which tested the core JavaScript makeup, and the second was done with <a href="http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v3/run.html" target="_blank">V8 Benchmark Suite</a>, which tests the internal make up of the mobile operating system, encryption and decryption, raytracing and more. <br /><br />The results were as follows: Google's Android 2.2--also known as Froyo--was faster in executing JavaScript than the iPhone's iOS 4. <br /><br />Though Safari may have a bit of a ways to go before it claims itself the world's fastest mobile browser, it is still most definitely heralded as a powerful browser--not to mention beautiful, especially with the iPhone 4's retina display. Besides, all those Flash applications will have to weigh down Android browsers sooner or later. <br /><br /><em><br />Follow this article's author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ohthatflo" target="_blank">Florence Ion, on Twitter</a>. </em><br /><br /></p>http://www.maclife.com/article/news/androids_froyo_beats_apples_ios_4_javascript_performance_tests#commentsNewsandroidandroid 2.2benchmarksfroyoios 4javascriptiPhoneWed, 07 Jul 2010 16:46:58 +0000Florence Ion7504 at http://www.maclife.com